andrew taylor from the associated press and anna edgerton from bloomberg news. who is going to go first. andy: senator, the president took to his favorite medium twitter to say democrats gave up a potentially good deal on these dreamer immigrants, on daca. how close did negotiations get on that? sen. leahy: they did not get close. i know you follow in the other reporters on capitol hill did. the president changed his position several times on dreamers. the senate leadership thought they had an agreement. within hours the president came up with a different point. they got to where they did not know what to do. they obviously are not going to pay a $25 billion or $30 billion ransom for dreamers. i think what we've got to do is come back, have a real debate on it, and vote a bill up or down. put everybody on the line. i think if the house and senate actually have to vote on dreamer legislation, it will pass. they hoped to do it with president trump happy, but his position has changed so many times, almost on a whim. i know he has advisors in his administration who

newsmakers is back with anna edgerton of bloomberg, andrew taylor of associated press.e just spoke with senator patrick leahy, billy democrat on the appropriations committee. a $1.3 trillion omnibus bill -- and no one seems happy with the process, though people seem to be happy with the additional money. earlyclear yet -- past so in the morning and senators couldn't read it before hand, is it clear if the winners and losers from a money standpoint? >> he said he's not happy with the process, but the process the top democrat with an norm is power. as for winners and losers, i think, as the senator alluded to, democrats really have the republicans in a difficult spot because they were really gunning for this money for the pentagon. as the president said in his press conference, he felt a need to keep the country secure, and that was the principal reason. if the democrats knew that, they were able to insist on things that they never could get under president obama. they got enormous sums for things like community endowment, block grants, obscure endowment's most of the c-s